[kevinjohngallagher]

Fixing the problem with minimal issues is the way to treat bbPress mZimmers. Really glad to see you getting through it bud

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yeah for sure, I helped out with the original WordOfRaids back in the day and they do that, but they just manually link to a forum post ( i set up a custom field on WordPress, so they make forum and copy/paste into there).

I’m not against the idea, its just definitely not going to be “off the shelf”; and nor is the original poster’s ideal solution going to be easy to come by (where it all happens automatically, though if you had time and the need it’s v possible).

I sent slightly off topic (big shock) but this sort of thing depends on the usergroup immensely. people who play mmorpgs as an example are used to forums and doing things in front of others; where as say a Classical Music Magazine website/blog’s users might not be really up for entering a forum flame war. Sorry if i gave the wrong impression, I sometimes feel its better to manage expectations a little with bbPress, especially with all the wordPress “as a CMS that can do anything” stuff flying around

[kevinjohngallagher]

http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-login.php

Oh, look, i thin i see the word… yes i do… BUDDYPRESS.

And we’ve found out that it’s not bbPress at fault it’s USER ERROR.

Big shock, HUGE shock. Apparently people who have used WordPress for more than 3 years can still make a mistake.

I’ve used WP for 3+ years now so I know what I’m doing

Apart from being able to read…

Somehow bbPress is being taken over by BuddyPress and this is probably why I get a blank page.

You guys are the experts – so what is happening and is it just as simple as bbPress and BuddyPress are not compatible with each other?

If so I’ll be on my way…

If only someone had said that they weren’t compatible, and that you should ask in the BuddyPress forums… oh wait, they did!!!

Honestly Perry man, we tried to help. Sorry you didn’t read what we had actually written.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I follow the bbPress instructions and I get a blank page

Awesome. Please give us LESS information.

Don’t tell us the error on your server logs, don’t tell us at what stage you get the blank page. Just tell us “blank page” and we’ll magically guess

Is this what you guys look at all day long?

No, but we know how to be polite when asking for help.

But I’m going after the bubble-gum chewing crowd with BuddyPress and bbPress looked like something they would use

You can’t use them together in anyway. You either use bbPress or you use BuddyPress. Let me put it more simply, if you use BuddyPress in any way shape or form, bbPress won’t work.

its all about making money

Cool, then you can go for paid support

So if there are any folks here who want to help I’ll take the advice; if not I’ll be joining the folks who find bbPress out of date with no support

bbPress is out of date, but it has support. You’ll find you’d get better answers if:

1) You had manners – the words “please” and “thanks” work really well

2) You gave us actual information, like your error log, rather than just “blank page”.

Just to reiterate, if you’re using BuddyPress, your problem has nothing to do with bbPress! Nothing at all!

[zaerl]

Perry. BuddyPress have already its own forum functionality which is as well an hacked version of bbPress. So you don’t need to install bbPress if you want a forum.

Go to /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bb-forums-setup and click “install”.

Once you have done this you can access the forum at /forums/. That page (/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-login.php) doesn’t display anything in BuddyPress.

If you have problems with BuddyPress you should ask for help in BuddyPress support forum and not here. This is the forum of bbPress.

[perrym]

I know that bbPress and BuddyPress are different animals – thought is was obvious and I didn’t have to point that out.

Still the two have nothing to do with each other during the installation of bbPress – thought that was obvious too.

Back to my point – I follow the bbPress instructions and I get a blank page.

Is this what you guys look at all day long?

I’ve always stayed from bbPress because of all the problems I’ve heard for other folks – I now understand why. But I’m going after the bubble-gum chewing crowd with BuddyPress and bbPress looked like something they would use – simple.

I really don’t think they relate to a heavy duty forum plug-in like Simple:press and would like to give bbPress a try – its all about making money.

So if there are any folks here who want to help I’ll take the advice; if not I’ll be joining the folks who find bbPress out of date with no support.

Thanks for any help in this matter…

P.S.

The thing I don’t understand is how I type in http://www.mywebsite.com/bbpress get the bbPress log in at the top, along with a 404 error, and when I click enter I get a blank page with the following link address:

http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-login.php

Somehow bbPress is being taken over by BuddyPress and this is probably why I get a blank page.

You guys are the experts – so what is happening and is it just as simple as bbPress and BuddyPress are not compatible with each other?

If so I’ll be on my way…

Oh, I am also using s2Member and I don’t know if that membership plug-in is involved here somewhere.

[Petehds]

I am working on bbpress 1.0.2 on Windows XP.

http://www.homedesignsense.com/forum

The forum is set-up; but the posting date in the admin is showing 9 months ago. How can that be changed?

Also; how can I add a post or topic in the admin panel? Is there an information site that gives more set-up information then this one? The one here is just the basic installation.

Thanks

[zaerl]

I’m using bbPress with BuddyPress but guys you’ve got to do better than a blank screen.

Ok. Next in schedule.

[kevinjohngallagher]

If you’ve been using WP for 3+ years, maybe you’d have the know how to read that bbPress and BuddyPress are different things. I’d you’re using BuddyPress, you should head to the BuddyPress forums.

And just to be clear, cos you’ve not given a whole

lot of information: bbPress is a stand alone forum that you can add shared cookies with WordPress, but it’s not there our of the box.

So if you’re not using BuddyPress, feel free to come back with more info, a better attitude, and we’ll try and help

oh and can i ask, after how long of using WordPress do humans stop making errors?? Glad you decided it was definately bbPress at fault and no possibility of anything else

[paulhawke]

Both PhpStorm and Netbeans 6.8 allow you to [ctrl | command] click on a method and jump to its definition. Its invaluable! There’s nothing quite like being able to click your way through the [bb | word]Press code and actually see what is going on. NetBeans is free to download and is a friendly full-featured IDE (great for the VisualStudio folks).

With the ease of code navigation in these tools, anyone interested in doing a “find in files” search for things like “add_action” and documenting what you find … as a way to help out the other plugin writers and bbPress coders?

[perrym]

Wow, I downloaded the latest bbPress 1.0.2, unzipped it, copied it to a folder /bbpress off my main directory, types in http://www.mysite.com/bbpress and bbPress asked for my user name and PW.

I entered my user name and PW for my site and I then get a blank page.

Come on guys – I installed Simple:Press and had users posting in just 15 minutes.

I’m using bbPress with BuddyPress but guys you’ve got to do better than a blank screen.

If anyone can help me I’ll take the help, if not I’ll chuck this program and have users up and posting in 15 minutes with Simple:Press.

This is really disappointing….

P.S.

When I get your log-in screen I get the “Page not found” 404 error if that helps.

And yes I’m using WP 2.9.2 and I’ve used WP for 3+ years now so I know what I’m doing.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi CEThom,

The “admin section” will not in any way help you. Sorry.

I’m afraid that bbPress requires a certain level of technical understanding to work in any small way that deviates from the standard. The ability to use and understand an FTP program and edit files is sadly the bare minimum. I would strongly suggest, for your own sake, finding someone that does know and understand these things and hiring them for the job.

Kev

[zaerl]

Your server is just a computer in which is installed bbPress. You need to connect to that server from your computer with an FTP client. Once you have established the connection you must upload the plugin file to the remote server and activate the plugin from the bbPress admin area.

It seems to me that you haven’t the necessary knowledge to perform such task. Maybe it’s better for you to hire someone for doing your work.

[Sam Bauers]

Hi _ck_!

You might be interested in this…

#1146

[zaerl]

I don’t know what a “forum’s admin centre” is.

Connect to your server and upload the file. If you don’t know how to do this maybe you should hire someone for doing it for you. If you want to be a bbPress admin you must know how to manage a site using an FTP client.

[zaerl]

We are talking about folders actually stored on your site server (http://www.cabbagemedia.com/students/forums) where bbPress has been installed. You need to access to your server through an FTP client.

[zaerl]

The root folder is the folder where you have installed bbPress. You need to open the FTP program you use and create a my-plugins folder inside the bbPress folder (if there isn’t already a folder with that name.) Once done this you must change that folder permission (write/read/exec) to 755 and upload the allow-images.php file inside it. Then open the plugin panel in the admin area of bbPress and activate the plugin.

[CEThom]

I’m in the early stages of setting up a forum for students in my local area. Here is my progress thus far:

http://www.cabbagemedia.com/students/forums

I have a few basic questions.

1) POSTING PICTURES

I downloaded this plugin:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/allow-images/?replies=29

But have absolutely no idea what to do with it. The instructions tell me this: “Add the allow-images.php file to bbPress’ my-plugins/ directory.”

But where is the directory? I can’t find it anywhere in my admin centre on the forum.

2) CHANGING THE LAYOUT

My admin centre only gives me two choices – green and blue. How do I change the layout entirely, ie. adding my own banner at the top?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Four little bugs with the theme:

1) Pagination duplication on Profile page:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_duplication_of_pagination.png

2) Pagination on Profile page:

Posts started will only appear/work on the first page. As soon as you move to page 2 or above, it says you’ve not started any ( haha, we all know I’ve started more than i should have ;-] )

3) bbPress Edit area:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_edit_area.png

It’s not been looked at in the slightest. Even teh default styles haven’t been applied.

4) bbpress Edit area:

If you write some code in a <code> tag. and edit your post, bbPress now puts in <p> and <br /> tags into your code on every line. If yuo’re syslexic like me and struggle with the small font, and edit code based posts a few times to remove errors, you get alot of added code.

5) RSS feed:

The new RSS feed has new/added HTML. If you’re RSS reader is a mail client (say google or windows live mail) then it strips these extra tags, but if you’re not using an overly sophisticated RSS client, you see everything wrapped in a <p> tag.

From what I can tell, and this may be down to the latest trunk version rather than the theme, it appears to wrap each paragraph twice in the <p> tags.

Thanks to Noel or whoever at Automattic is working on fixing these, we apprecaite it

[kevinjohngallagher]

What’s wrong with it?

Far too little of bbPress’s output comes with relavant IDs or classes for theming; and far too much of it is is hardcoded into the core rather than in the theme, or even a functions file etc.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ah right, well in that case what you want is this:

1) A “forum/category” that users can add to threads, but not make their own threads. (requires a bbPress plugin)

2) A plugin in WordPress that “posts” a thread in that same “forum/category” for users to comment on.

3) When someone clicks on a link on your blog to read comments, that link should go to the right forum (that’ll require a plugin too)

4) When someone enters a comment on your blog post, it posts it to the forum (another plugin – possibly an extention of the same one but new functionality). It should then link them to their comment (which is actually a forum post).

You’re basically looking at a WordPress plugin that has 3 main functions which go against how WordPress works. Its possible, totally possible really, but it’s neither simple or straightforward. Given that the work would have to be done at the WordPress end, you’d have more luck posting there than here sadly.

I’d also strongly suggest against this sort of thing. While in theory you’re moving the “conversation” to one place rather than two, you’re also duplicating the blog post into two places. That always confuses users. Its also worth thinking about whether you have the size of userbase where this will be benefitial. Lastly, people use blog comments and forums for different things. At a technical level they are very similar, and many experienced forum users look on both in a truly similar light; but your “average joe” sees a comment on a blog post as a comment on the blog post, while a forum is an open place to talk – or realistically have others argue against what was said.

A comment is a “1 to 1” communication (seen by others ofcourse), while a forum is an “many to many” communication; and users do treat them differently at a base level.

If you thought this was imperative for your site, i’d suggest ignoring the bbpress aspect of it, and pay someone very knowledgable to theme your comment sections to look/work like a forum. bbPress is going that wasy as a wordpress plugin, so pay for or putitng the large amount of time and effort into coding your solution might have very little RoI.

Good luck whatever you do, and keep us posted if you do anythign v cool!!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ok, lets see what we can do here:

1) What version of WordPress?

2) What version of bbPress?

3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?

4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?

5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?

6) What happens when you log in and post?

7) What happens when you log in and post as a new user (i.e. not as you)?

Are you using buddyPress?

9) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?

10) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?

11) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?

12) When you say things appear in your akismet que and then akismet

13) Are comments getting through akismet on wordpress?

I selected the check box next to “Create a page that shows spam

statistics” on the Akismet page. The page showed there was 26 post in the spam section.

I selected spam in the drop down box but the messages do not show up even

after I click on filter. I don’t know of any other way to get to the

messages to see if they are all spam

Um, is this on the wordpress side or the bbPress side?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Sorry my friend, but you’re using BuddyPress and not bbPress.

Hype aside, they’re different, and you whouls take this to the buddyPress forum for help; we’d be close to helpless.

Good luck,

Kev

[bluesteel1]

Still no ideas. Here is the url if that helps.

http://ipadhelp.com

[kevinjohngallagher]

In theory, and really its in theory given the amount of “core” hacks that are needed for any real diversity in theming bbPress, you should add the encapsulating “<div>” tags into your theme instead.

Given that 1.1 (or 1.0.3 – as people use different names for the next release) will be a must upgrade from 1.0.2 if you ask me, i’d hold off on any core hacks for a while if possible.

1.1 (or 1.0.3) includes a good number of bug fixes that have been hanging around for years and years; as well as 2 new features that we already had as plugins.

Either way mZimmers, glad to see you on board and getting your head round it mate!